'I track her progeny as if they're my own' - how Sprint Cup sensation Quiet Reflection has come to produce a champion

The Sprint Cup made Quiet Reflection a champion on the track and she has already shown she can produce champions in her second career off it too.

After winning the 2016 Commonwealth Cup at , the Karl Burke-trained star confirmed herself Britain's best sprinter at Haydock when easily beating The Tin Man by a length and three-quarters.

She also sealed the Cartier champion sprinter honour – the only British-trained Cartier award winner that year.

Quiet Reflection failed to hit those heights as a four-year-old before Coolmore paid 2.1 million gns for her at the 2017 Tattersalls December Mares Sale from her previous owners, the Ontoawinner syndicate, Hubert Strecker and Burke.

Now a 12-year-old, she is still part of Coolmore's broodmare band in Ireland and three of her four offspring who have raced have won, including over jumps. However, the best she has produced is undoubtedly Lake Victoria. 

Crowned last year's champion European two-year-old filly following a terrific treble in the Moyglare Stud Stakes, Cheveley Park and Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies' turf, she made Quiet Reflection the broodmare of a Classic winner when taking this year's Irish 1,000 Guineas.

It was a victory not just celebrated by Coolmore, but by Quiet Reflection's previous owners too as her legacy in the sport continued.

"She's doing very well. We've had plenty of fun watching her progeny run," Simon Bridge, director and co-founder of Ontoawinner, said. "Obviously she's had Lake Victoria, who is a bit special like her mother. 

"I track the entries of her progeny as if they're my own and whenever I see Coolmore at the races or the sales, they're always happy to have a conversation. Kevin Buckley, Coolmore's British representative, always has a chat with us and lets me know what's happening with her, which is very kind. 

"They have bigger fish to deal with than us but they're a very classy outfit and I'm very pleased for them, as they invested a lot of money in her."

Nine years have passed since Quiet Reflection swatted aside her rivals in the driving rain ay Haydock, which Bridge still cannot believe.

"It's crazy it was that long ago – time flies and it only seems like yesterday it happened," he said. "It threw it down all day and I know Karl was seriously concerned it would be too soft.

"She was very popular. The number of people that would ask about her at the races was incredible. It was a good journey and it's continued into her second career. Long may it continue."

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